Boh Runga1969/1970 (age45–46) is a New Zealand recording artist and was the lead singer and guitarist in New Zealand rock band Stellar. Boh is the older sister of Bic Runga and Pearl Runga who are also musicians.
Biography
Boh grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand. She is the daughter of Joseph Runga, a Maori ex-serviceman and Sophia Tang, a Chinese singer who abandoned her own music career in Malaysia to join Joseph in his home country. Joseph was a self-taught pianist and died in 2005 from a heart attack.
Boh left Christchurch for Auckland to form Stellar in the late 1990s. After signing with Sony Music, Stellar released their 1999 debut album Mix and quickly became Sony's biggest selling New Zealand band as the album went multi-platinum. Stellar also secured eight Tui Awards for Mix and its 2001 follow up Magic Line.
After the release of 'Magic Line' and the subsequent touring of New Zealand, Australia and Europe, Boh headed to Los Angeles in 2003 to hone her skills as a songwriter at the invitation of her LA-based music publishers, Chrysalis. She now lives in Los Angeles. Since 2003, she has been married to Campbell Smith, who is the manager for her sister Bic and chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand.
.kiwi is an Internetgeneric top-level domain with emphasis on New Zealand. It employs the colloquial term kiwi, used to refer to New Zealanders. It is New Zealand's first and presently only "top level domain name approved by ICANN".
The video itself centers around a kiwi bird who is mysteriously seen to be nailing an array of trees to the side of a sheer cliff so that they stick out horizontally. After the kiwi finishes it returns to the top of the cliff, before donning an aviator's cap and suddenly jumping off. As it dives down the cliff head-first the camera view turns sideways, revealing the purpose behind the kiwi's efforts. A tear wells from one eye as the kiwi achieves its dream, flapping its tiny wings as it "flies" above the forest of trees. The kiwi then disappears into the fog below: at the very end a faint thump is heard, implying that it died in the attempt.
Kiwi (pronounced /kiːwiː/) or kiwis are flightless birds native to New Zealand, in the genusApteryx and family Apterygidae. At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites (which also consist of ostriches, emus, rheas, and cassowaries), and lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world. DNA sequence comparisons have yielded the surprising conclusion that kiwi are much more closely related to the extinct Malagasy elephant birds than to the moa with which they shared New Zealand. There are five recognised species, two of which are currently vulnerable, one of which is endangered, and one of which is critically endangered. All species have been negatively affected by historic deforestation but currently the remaining large areas of their forest habitat are well protected in reserves and national parks. At present, the greatest threat to their survival is predation by invasive mammalian predators.
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Official music video for stellar*'s 'Undone' from the album Mix.
published: 24 Jan 2009
Boh Runga & Julia Deans on recreating their favourite tracks | The Project NZ
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published: 18 Oct 2023
Would Ya Give Your Heart - Boh Runga
Would Ya Give Your Heart - Boh Runga
published: 06 Apr 2010
Bic Runga - Something Good
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published: 06 Jan 2017
Boh Runga - Evelyn
Boh Runga - Evelyn
published: 17 Aug 2009
Boh Runga: the dynamic creative force | nzherald.co.nz
New Zealand Singer and Jewellery sensation Boh Runga sits down with Reset to chat about morning thoughts, her sisters and the last text she'd sent.
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published: 04 Dec 2023
Be Careful - Boh Runga
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published: 22 Sep 2009
For A While - stellar* (feat. Andy Lovegrove)
Official music video for stellar*'s 'For A While' from the album Something Like Strangers, and featuring Breaks Co-op's Andy Lovegrove on vocals..
A bunch of much-loved Kiwi singers are joining forces to recreate the music of world-famous women of rock.
Boh Runga and Julia Deans are here to tell us all a...
A bunch of much-loved Kiwi singers are joining forces to recreate the music of world-famous women of rock.
Boh Runga and Julia Deans are here to tell us all about stepping into the shoes of their musical heroes for their new live show.
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A bunch of much-loved Kiwi singers are joining forces to recreate the music of world-famous women of rock.
Boh Runga and Julia Deans are here to tell us all about stepping into the shoes of their musical heroes for their new live show.
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New Zealand Singer and Jewellery sensation Boh Runga sits down with Reset to chat about morning thoughts, her sisters and the last text she'd sent.
Videographe...
New Zealand Singer and Jewellery sensation Boh Runga sits down with Reset to chat about morning thoughts, her sisters and the last text she'd sent.
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New Zealand Singer and Jewellery sensation Boh Runga sits down with Reset to chat about morning thoughts, her sisters and the last text she'd sent.
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A bunch of much-loved Kiwi singers are joining forces to recreate the music of world-famous women of rock.
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Boh Runga1969/1970 (age45–46) is a New Zealand recording artist and was the lead singer and guitarist in New Zealand rock band Stellar. Boh is the older sister of Bic Runga and Pearl Runga who are also musicians.
Biography
Boh grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand. She is the daughter of Joseph Runga, a Maori ex-serviceman and Sophia Tang, a Chinese singer who abandoned her own music career in Malaysia to join Joseph in his home country. Joseph was a self-taught pianist and died in 2005 from a heart attack.
Boh left Christchurch for Auckland to form Stellar in the late 1990s. After signing with Sony Music, Stellar released their 1999 debut album Mix and quickly became Sony's biggest selling New Zealand band as the album went multi-platinum. Stellar also secured eight Tui Awards for Mix and its 2001 follow up Magic Line.
After the release of 'Magic Line' and the subsequent touring of New Zealand, Australia and Europe, Boh headed to Los Angeles in 2003 to hone her skills as a songwriter at the invitation of her LA-based music publishers, Chrysalis. She now lives in Los Angeles. Since 2003, she has been married to Campbell Smith, who is the manager for her sister Bic and chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand.